Monday, 12 March 2012

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées. Giraud earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Mœbius, and to a lesser extent Gir (used for the "Blueberry" series), the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee and French politician Jack Lang among other notables, he was one of the few francophone comic strip artists to receive international acclaim.

Among his most famous works are the Western comic series "Blueberry" he co-created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, one of the first Western anti-heroes to appear in comics. Under the pseudonym Moebius he created a wide range of science fiction and and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative and surreal almost abstract style, the most famous of which are Arzach and the Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius, and the The Incal. Blueberry was adapted for the screen in 2004, and in 1997 Moebius and cocreator Alejandro Jodorowsky sued Luc Besson for using the Incal as inspiration for his movie The Fifth Element, a lawsuit which they lost.

Moebius contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction and fantasy films, including Alien, Willow, and Tron. Giraud's artwork for the Dan O'Bannon short story comic "The Long Tomorrow" was a key visual reference for Blade Runner. George Lucas used one of Giraud's designs for the Imperial Probe Droid in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Lucas's later Star Wars films also share many visual characteristics with Giraud's work, particularly the depiction of the city-planet Coruscant.

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Perhaps one of the, if not the only, most influential comics artist of all time. First got aquainted with his works in the fantasy/sci-fi/erotica Heavy Metal magazine of which is the US version of Métal Hurlant, the French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, co-created in December 1974 by Jean Giraud.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

I need to be myselfI can't be no one elseI'm feeling supersonicGive me gin and tonicYou can have it all but how much do you want it?You make me laughGive me your autographCan I ride with you in your B.M.W ?You can sail with me in my yellow submarine

You need to find out'Cos no one's gonna tell you what I'm on aboutYou need to find a way for what you want to sayBut before tomorrow

'Cos my friend said he'd take you homeHe sits in a corner all aloneHe lives under a waterfallNo body can see himNo body can ever hear him callNo body can ever hear him call

You need to be yourselfYou can't be no one elseI know a girl called ElsaShe's into Alka SeltzerShe sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic trainAnd she makes me laughI got her autographShe done it with a doctor on a helicopterShe's sniffin in her tissueSellin' the Big Issue'

When she finds outNo one's gonna tell you what I'm on aboutYou need to find a way for what you want to sayBut before tomorrow

'Cos my friend said he'd take you homeHe sits in a corner all aloneHe lives under a waterfallNo body can see himNo body can ever hear him callNo body can ever hear him call~Supersonic, Oasis.

Looking for the essential Oasis compilation of songs? Easy. Just get their 1994 debut, "Definitely, Maybe", then the 1995 staggeringly successful sophomore album, "What's the Story? (Morning Glory)" which catapulted them into the Britpop super group stratospheric status, which in the process inflated both Noel and Liam's egos bigger than the size of the infinite universe, and finally, the 1998 B-sides compilation, "The Masterplan". Brotherly feud and fighting, front page headliners for right and wrong reasons, bad mouthing with honest to the bone opinions about how "shite" other bands was of their time, rebutting the fatalism of "grunge", embraced life and with confidence as tough as British steel, Oasis captured the essential (northern) souls of every person globally at the height of their popularity. So go supersonic with cigarettes and alcohol, live forever with champagne supernova so that we don't have to look back in anger and with acquiesce because we have the wonderwall to talk tonight as part of the masterplan. Swaggering has never been so kewl....

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

I wander lonely streetsBehind where the old Thames does flowAnd in every face I meetReminds me of what I have run from

In every man, in every handIn every kiss, you understandThat living is for other menI hope you too will understand

I've got to tell you my taleOf how I loved and how I failedI hope you understandThese feelings should not be in the man

In every child, in every eyeIn every sky, above my headI hope that I knowSo come with me in bedBecause it's you and me, we're historyThere ain't nothing left to sayWhen I will get you alone

Maybe we could find a roomWhere we could see what we should doMaybe you know it's trueLiving with me is like keeping a fool

In every man, in every handIn every kiss, you understandThat living is for other menI hope you know that I am me so come onI'm thinking about historyAnd I'm living for historyAnd I think you know about meCause I am

And one and one is twoBut three is companyWhen you're thinking about the things you doAnd you're thinking about the things you doI want to tell you my taleHow I failed in love and jumped out on my bailDo you understand there's more in a smile than in a handIn every sky, in every kissThere's one thing that you might have missed

Why am I going toA place that now belongs to youBut you are me and so am ILet's pick it up, let's even tryTo live today, so why not smileDon't dream away your life coz it is mineIs that a crime this life is mineBut the bed ain't made but it's spilled full of hopeI've got a skin full of dope~ History, The Verve.

During the Britpop heydays of the 90s, I personally felt The Verve steamrolled through most of the bands which shared their music genre and category with the released their second album, A Northern Soul (1995), and one of the most quintessential albums in musicdom, Urban Hymns (1997). And through lead vocalist, band co-founders and as one of the two (or was it three? :P) ape walking rock gods of his time, Richard Ashcroft, The Verve gave the music world some of the most epic, bittersweet strings laddened, sentimentally full filling and emotional overture yet to be matched till present.

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